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Bougainville Island - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Bougainville Island is the largest of hundreds of islands that comprise the Notrh Solomons chain of islands. Bougainville Island is both ethnically and geographically seperate from PNG, but under the control of the PNG government....
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Bougainville Province, also known as North Solomons, is an autonomous region in Papua New Guinea Bougainville Island, part of Papua New Guinea and the largest island of the Solomon Islands group Bougainville, Somme, commune in Somme département, France Bougainville campaign (1943–45), a campaign...
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The following page is a collection of information, links and documents relating to the conflict between the people of Bougainville Island and the Papua New Guinea government arising from the activities of the Panguna Copper Mine project owned and operated by Bougainville Copper Limited (BCL).
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Bougainville is a large island to the east of Papua New Guinea - which in its turn lies due North of Australia. Click below to get the latest news from the Australian media on Bougainville and from the island.
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From the air Bougainville is a romantic island. Lush and rugged, surrounded by reefs and an emerald sea. Cloud sits on the rain forest that mats the mountains.
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A history of the island's struggle for freedom, from the World History Archives. From the Guardian (Australia), 20 September 1995. Bougainville Transitional Government, Bougainville Interim Government (BIG),
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RIO Rio Tinto PNG's Bougainville Island may see copper mining restarted - report (Rio Tinto)
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image: earth sciences and image analysis laboratory, nasa johnson space center.
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These self-declared twin royal domains are only a few hours flight from Australia, on the island of Bougainville.
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